I needed a whiteboard upon which to scrawl my brilliant ideas. But, before purchasing a new one, I trawled the local thrift stores and Behold! $1.98 at the Quality Thrift Store. Before it became the pristine blank canvas you see in the picture (also: my adorable daughter, desperately reaching for the markers), it was covered in near-permanent marks that had embedded themselves into the surface. The thing hadn’t been cleaned in years.
After pouring copious amounts of rubbing alcohol and coca-cola on the board in an attempt to get rid of the previous owner’s scribblings, we finally discovered that nail polish remover did the trick. Helpful hint: combining rubbing alcohol, coke, and nail polish remover together in a small, unventilated room, is seriously unwise.
The board now sits behind my desk, ready for my scatterbrained thoughts.
15/06/2009 at 2:20 pm Permalink
See brainstorming without an outline! This is priceless!
15/06/2009 at 2:27 pm Permalink
The whiteboard is covered now (I should take an updated picture of it) and I’ve also begun to fill a notebook with plot details and thoughts. Comparing all my notes, a lot of them contradict one another, but all of the brainstorming generates some wild (and some very useful) ideas.
22/06/2009 at 3:14 pm Permalink
Reminds me of “Poltergeist”.
23/06/2009 at 1:51 pm Permalink
What, are you saying my daughter is possessed by an evil spirit??!!?!?!?!?? (hmmm…. that may explain some things)